Textbook controversy moves throughout state

10:39 PM,
Dec. 6, 2013

Written by

Maria Giordano and
Joey Garrison

At the latest front in the war over Tennessee textbooks, a Williamson County parent whose objections helped spark the entire controversy now says all the books her group has reviewed have flaws.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore's quest to discard a geography book she claimed was anti-Semitic failed last year. But now as Tennessee school districts prepare to adopt new textbooks for 2014-15, she has broadened her target to include one of the most powerful companies in public education: Pearson, a publishing company that she alleges has a history of bias.